FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER AWARD A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year Europe in 1945 was drained. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far as the borders of Russia itself. Postwar tells the rich and complex story of how…mehr
A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year
Europe in 1945 was drained. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far as the borders of Russia itself. Postwar tells the rich and complex story of how we got from there to here, demystifying Europe's recent history and identity, of what the continent is and has been.
'It is hard to imagine how a better - and more readable - history of the emergence of today's Europe from the ashes of 1945 could ever be written...All in all, a real masterpiece' Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler
Tony Judt was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University; in addition to Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and which he founded in 1995. The author or editor of fourteen books, Professor Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement , the New Republic, the New York Times and many other journals in Europe and the US. Professor Judt is the author of Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, which was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August, 2010 at the age of sixty-two.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface & Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Post-War: 1945-1953 I. The Legacy of War II. Retribution III. The Rehabilitation of Europe IV. The Impossible Settlement V. The Coming of the Cold War VI. Into the Whirlwind VII. Culture Wars Coda. The End of Old Europe Part Two: Prosperity and Its Discontents: 1953-1971 VIII. The Politics of Stability IX. Lost Illusions X. The Age of Affluence XI. The Social Democratic Hour XII. The Spectre of Revolution XIII. The End of the Affair Part Three: Recessional: 1971-1989 XIV. Diminished Expectations XV. Politics in a New Key XVI. A Time of Transition XVII. The New Realism XVIII. The Power of the Powerless XIX. The End of the Old Order Part Four: After the Fall: 1989-2005 XX. A Fissile Continent XXI. The Reckoning XXII. The Old Europe—:and the New XXIII. The Varieties of Europe XXIV. Europe as a Way of Life Epilogue From the House of the Dead: An Essay on Modern European Memory Index
Preface & Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Post-War: 1945-1953 I. The Legacy of War II. Retribution III. The Rehabilitation of Europe IV. The Impossible Settlement V. The Coming of the Cold War VI. Into the Whirlwind VII. Culture Wars Coda. The End of Old Europe Part Two: Prosperity and Its Discontents: 1953-1971 VIII. The Politics of Stability IX. Lost Illusions X. The Age of Affluence XI. The Social Democratic Hour XII. The Spectre of Revolution XIII. The End of the Affair Part Three: Recessional: 1971-1989 XIV. Diminished Expectations XV. Politics in a New Key XVI. A Time of Transition XVII. The New Realism XVIII. The Power of the Powerless XIX. The End of the Old Order Part Four: After the Fall: 1989-2005 XX. A Fissile Continent XXI. The Reckoning XXII. The Old Europe—:and the New XXIII. The Varieties of Europe XXIV. Europe as a Way of Life Epilogue From the House of the Dead: An Essay on Modern European Memory Index
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Most impressive... Postwar, Tony Judt's magnificent history of Europe after The Second World War, covers vast tracts of ground with extraordinary skill, weaving together the stories of West and East in a single, compelling narrative Evening Standard, 'Books of the Year'
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